HPB Surgery, 1990, Vol. 2, pp. 7-13 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by license only
1990 Harwood Academic Publishers GmbH Printed in the United Kingdom
BILE PERITONITIS IN ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS ROLAND ANDERSSON, KARL-GORAN TRANBERG and STIG BENGMARK Department of Surgery, Lund University, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden (Received 16 November 1988)
A review ofall patients treated for acute cholecystitis (n 5848) during an 18-year period (1969-1986) at two hospitals (one practising early surgery in patients with acute cholecystitis and the other not) disclosed that 104 (1.8%) had bile within the abdominal cavity at surgery; 71 with a visible perforation of the gallbladder and 33 without. The bile was infected in 82% of performed cultures (most commonly with Escherichia coli). Mortality was 7.7% (8/104 patients), being 20% (4/20)in the hospital practising delayed surgery and 5% (4/ 84) in the hospital practising early surgery (p
1990 Harwood Academic Publishers GmbH Printed in the United Kingdom
BILE PERITONITIS IN ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS ROLAND ANDERSSON, KARL-GORAN TRANBERG and STIG BENGMARK Department of Surgery, Lund University, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden (Received 16 November 1988)
A review ofall patients treated for acute cholecystitis (n 5848) during an 18-year period (1969-1986) at two hospitals (one practising early surgery in patients with acute cholecystitis and the other not) disclosed that 104 (1.8%) had bile within the abdominal cavity at surgery; 71 with a visible perforation of the gallbladder and 33 without. The bile was infected in 82% of performed cultures (most commonly with Escherichia coli). Mortality was 7.7% (8/104 patients), being 20% (4/20)in the hospital practising delayed surgery and 5% (4/ 84) in the hospital practising early surgery (p
